Skinny Puppy
Horror-film dialogue, mangled synthesisers and Nivek Ogre's distorted snarl: Skinny Puppy made industrial music feel like a nightmare playing out in real time.
cEvin Key and Ogre started the Vancouver project in 1982, and with Dwayne Goettel they recorded Cleanse Fold and Manipulate, VIVIsectVI and Too Dark Park, records that attacked animal testing and environmental destruction with brutal, collage-like noise. Their gory stage shows got them arrested in Cincinnati in 1988.
Goettel died in 1995, but Key and Ogre later revived the band, before a farewell tour in 2023.
If you like Skinny Puppy you should check out: Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle, Einstürzende Neubauten, Coil, Chris & Cosey, Killing Joke, The Young Gods, Fear Factory
